You are so very close to being finished with the Influential Person Multi-Media Event (IPMME).
As you are recording your paper on Screencast, remember to begin by recording a slowly scrolled video of your entire paper, including the works cited, in case the fifteen minutes you are allotted turns out not to be enough. If the fifteen minutes is not enough, do not panic or worry. I will still assess your entire paper through the video you shot at the beginning.
If you are reading this you are probably ready to submit the Screencast of the IPMME to Canvas. Let's go through it one more time.
After you've recorded on Screencast, you'll want to save it. Select DONE on the Screencast next to the recorder button.
A window will pop up that asks how you want to save it. Select the option that says "Save as video file".
It should say that the type of file you are saving is an MP4...great.
On this screen you should also give it a name. The name I would like you to give it would be your first initial, last name and name of your IP (example: POMalleyWalt Disney).
It also asks you where to save it on this screen. The desktop would be a good choice for ease of access.
You should then click "Publish".
A new window will pop up saying it is being published. This could take a bit, depending on the length of the video.
Once it is published you can either play the video one more time or press DONE.
After you press DONE, you'll want to upload the published MP4 file you saved to your desktop to Canvas.
Open Canvas and go to the assignment titled "The Influential Person Multi-Media Event".
Click on the UPLOAD ASSIGNMENT button and follow the directions. You should be good to go.
Congratulations! You are finished. Now if you have any concerns or doubts, bring what you need to class tomorrow so that we can be sure it is uploaded correctly by the end of class. Can't wait to start viewing the IPMMEs!
If you look on Canvas later today, I will have the rubric posted and broken down by points.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Friday, May 15, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
Standard: Read Night pages 47-65; be looking for the eight events that Elie writes about. Be able to answer why he chose those eight events. What purpose did each one have? what point was each one trying to get across?
Honors: You began your multi-media work today. Have 3-5 supplemental pieces of information/links identified for your paper. I'll have you start doing the writing for the voice-overs tomorrow.
Honors: You began your multi-media work today. Have 3-5 supplemental pieces of information/links identified for your paper. I'll have you start doing the writing for the voice-overs tomorrow.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Standard: Read Night pages 46-61
Honors: Complete final copy of the paper is due Monday. We will begin work on the Screencasting part in class on Monday.
Link to the Night prompts.
Honors: Complete final copy of the paper is due Monday. We will begin work on the Screencasting part in class on Monday.
Link to the Night prompts.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Happy First Day of May!
Honors: ISTEP on Monday. It will take about 70-80 minutes so it does leave almost 40 minutes of class time...I hope.
With that in mind, I want you to do well on ISTEP--take your time and think carefully--but we also need to prepare for class. We looked at the IP drafts today. They are coming along but still require some additional evidence and analysis and valid support based on the discussions I heard.
The big concern seems to be the counter claim. I opened up a new possibility in this regard. Before I said the counterclaim has to explain why the IP does not deserve a seat at the table of influence. That's still the first choice, however, now, if you are having a bear of a time coming up with a valid/logical/acceptable counterclaim, I'll allow you to argue that there is a negative influence that would diminish the positive influence you presented in your body paragraphs. Let me know if you have a question on that.
We are setting Friday May 8 as the completion date for the paper. Now, that does not include any of the multi-media/screencast parts of the paper. We will visit those the following week.
Standard: 55 minutes just seems to fast after having 125 minute classes. We crammed what we could into the time and still didn't get as far as I had hoped. For that reason, I just want you to read pages 23-28 this weekend. Since ISTEP will only take a portion of our time on Monday/Tuesday, we will fill the rest of the time completing today's plan and jumping onto those new five pages.
With that in mind, I want you to do well on ISTEP--take your time and think carefully--but we also need to prepare for class. We looked at the IP drafts today. They are coming along but still require some additional evidence and analysis and valid support based on the discussions I heard.
The big concern seems to be the counter claim. I opened up a new possibility in this regard. Before I said the counterclaim has to explain why the IP does not deserve a seat at the table of influence. That's still the first choice, however, now, if you are having a bear of a time coming up with a valid/logical/acceptable counterclaim, I'll allow you to argue that there is a negative influence that would diminish the positive influence you presented in your body paragraphs. Let me know if you have a question on that.
We are setting Friday May 8 as the completion date for the paper. Now, that does not include any of the multi-media/screencast parts of the paper. We will visit those the following week.
Standard: 55 minutes just seems to fast after having 125 minute classes. We crammed what we could into the time and still didn't get as far as I had hoped. For that reason, I just want you to read pages 23-28 this weekend. Since ISTEP will only take a portion of our time on Monday/Tuesday, we will fill the rest of the time completing today's plan and jumping onto those new five pages.
Monday, April 27, 2015
Our First Block Day
Honors: We examined Carl Sandburg's poem "A Fence" and I had you identify the author's feelings towards the fence and the overall theme of the poem. Good practice for ISTEP but it also revealed that we need to read the poems closer.
Spent a lot of time on our papers, sharing them, editing them, adding new paragraphs and new research, etc. While I'm not assigning any homework (per Mrs. Harper), it would be beneficial for you to continue working on them over the next couple days.
Standard: We also examined Carl Sandburg's poem "A Fence" but spent a little more time working on the analysis of the poem together. It's a tricky one to understand if you get too caught up in the first part of the poem.
After that we spent some time discussing and writing about the Holocaust. We examined some photos that helped for us to picture some of the events. We also read a brief children's story called "The Poison Mushroom" which demonstrated how Hitler was able to brainwash his people so easily. Finally, we passed out the book Night and started reading it.
We will duplicate all this tomorrow and then start fresh on Wednesday.
Spent a lot of time on our papers, sharing them, editing them, adding new paragraphs and new research, etc. While I'm not assigning any homework (per Mrs. Harper), it would be beneficial for you to continue working on them over the next couple days.
Standard: We also examined Carl Sandburg's poem "A Fence" but spent a little more time working on the analysis of the poem together. It's a tricky one to understand if you get too caught up in the first part of the poem.
After that we spent some time discussing and writing about the Holocaust. We examined some photos that helped for us to picture some of the events. We also read a brief children's story called "The Poison Mushroom" which demonstrated how Hitler was able to brainwash his people so easily. Finally, we passed out the book Night and started reading it.
We will duplicate all this tomorrow and then start fresh on Wednesday.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Parallel Structure and Counter Arguments
Honors: If you weren't in class today, see me about taking a quick quiz over parallel structure.
There seems to be a lot of concern about finding good counter arguments. Understandable, but remember not everyone gets a seat at The Table of Influence. There are many baseball players who had really good careers but did not qualify for the Hall of Fame. In the IP case, the individual might have some influence, but didn't necessarily have any more--or as much--influence as someone else in their situation. For example, there have been 266 popes. All have had some measure of influence but they don't all deserve a seat at the table. A good counterargument might be that while the pope you selected for your IP had influence, he had no more--and maybe even less--influence as many of the other popes.
With the help of K.A., we discussed the importance of not just mentioning a counter argument but of also developing that counter argument with quotes and evidence. Build it up so you can tear it down.
We looked at our arguments and then discussed the outline I want you to start filling in tonight. Here is the basic format. I'm not expecting to see analysis yet, but the more you have completed, and the sooner you have it completed, the better off you will be.
Standard: We introduced parallel structure today. You seemed to pick up on it pretty quickly. We'll check tomorrow. Here is a link to the slides. Just focus on the first ten slides.
We also started talking about some essential questions for a unit we have coming up. The questions were
Are people basically good?
Does the past matter?
What is really important in life?
They are all connected and related to a topic we will start exploring tomorrow. Can't wait to share it with you.
There seems to be a lot of concern about finding good counter arguments. Understandable, but remember not everyone gets a seat at The Table of Influence. There are many baseball players who had really good careers but did not qualify for the Hall of Fame. In the IP case, the individual might have some influence, but didn't necessarily have any more--or as much--influence as someone else in their situation. For example, there have been 266 popes. All have had some measure of influence but they don't all deserve a seat at the table. A good counterargument might be that while the pope you selected for your IP had influence, he had no more--and maybe even less--influence as many of the other popes.
With the help of K.A., we discussed the importance of not just mentioning a counter argument but of also developing that counter argument with quotes and evidence. Build it up so you can tear it down.
We looked at our arguments and then discussed the outline I want you to start filling in tonight. Here is the basic format. I'm not expecting to see analysis yet, but the more you have completed, and the sooner you have it completed, the better off you will be.
Standard: We introduced parallel structure today. You seemed to pick up on it pretty quickly. We'll check tomorrow. Here is a link to the slides. Just focus on the first ten slides.
We also started talking about some essential questions for a unit we have coming up. The questions were
Are people basically good?
Does the past matter?
What is really important in life?
They are all connected and related to a topic we will start exploring tomorrow. Can't wait to share it with you.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Semi-Colons, Research and Power Posing
Click on this link for a semi-colon quiz!
Honors: It's the punctuation mark that can set your writing apart or it's the dreaded punctuation mark no one knows how to use. Either way, we discussed the semi-colon today. For some it was a reminder. for others, it was clarification or even new material. Here's a link to the slides on the presentation and Click on this link for a semi-colon quiz!
After flash drafting on your influential person and the information you've uncovered so far, we took a quick detour to emphasize the importance of identifying all your sources and citing your quotes as well. Doing only one of those is not enough. A.B. gave us a great example of how to do it correctly.
We had some research time during which it became clear to me that we need to understand the difference between accomplishments and influence.
Galileo invented the first telescope. That's an accomplishment. That alone does not signify influence. How did his invention of the telescope influence (change the character, behavior or development of someone) the people of his time or those that followed him? The telescope was not the influence; how it altered the way people studied space and the stars is the influence.
Michael Jordan scored over 30,000 points. That's a great accomplishment, but did that accomplishment influence anyone? His influence is visible in other ways. that's what you need to uncover.
As you research, if you come across words such as: altered, changed, because of (influential person)..., etc., then you know you are on to something big.
Tonight I'm asking you to identify 3 + 1. Three arguments and one counter. These are only sentences--four total sentences. You do not need to stick with what you produce tonight, but
I need to know that we are all progressing in our research.
Standard: We also looked at semi-colons today. Here's a link to the slides on the presentation and Click on this link for a semi-colon quiz! Be sure to ask if you have questions.
We had our last day of power posing too. From this point forward, you'll need to see me during lunch to earn your points. Tomorrow I will work with students from period three. Friday I will work with students from period four. Hopefully, we'll be able to have everyone successfully demonstrating confidence through reading.
See you tomorrow.
Honors: It's the punctuation mark that can set your writing apart or it's the dreaded punctuation mark no one knows how to use. Either way, we discussed the semi-colon today. For some it was a reminder. for others, it was clarification or even new material. Here's a link to the slides on the presentation and Click on this link for a semi-colon quiz!
After flash drafting on your influential person and the information you've uncovered so far, we took a quick detour to emphasize the importance of identifying all your sources and citing your quotes as well. Doing only one of those is not enough. A.B. gave us a great example of how to do it correctly.
We had some research time during which it became clear to me that we need to understand the difference between accomplishments and influence.
Galileo invented the first telescope. That's an accomplishment. That alone does not signify influence. How did his invention of the telescope influence (change the character, behavior or development of someone) the people of his time or those that followed him? The telescope was not the influence; how it altered the way people studied space and the stars is the influence.
Michael Jordan scored over 30,000 points. That's a great accomplishment, but did that accomplishment influence anyone? His influence is visible in other ways. that's what you need to uncover.
As you research, if you come across words such as: altered, changed, because of (influential person)..., etc., then you know you are on to something big.
Tonight I'm asking you to identify 3 + 1. Three arguments and one counter. These are only sentences--four total sentences. You do not need to stick with what you produce tonight, but
I need to know that we are all progressing in our research.
Standard: We also looked at semi-colons today. Here's a link to the slides on the presentation and Click on this link for a semi-colon quiz! Be sure to ask if you have questions.
We had our last day of power posing too. From this point forward, you'll need to see me during lunch to earn your points. Tomorrow I will work with students from period three. Friday I will work with students from period four. Hopefully, we'll be able to have everyone successfully demonstrating confidence through reading.
See you tomorrow.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Intro Clauses and IP Research
Honors: We reviewed introductory clauses and comma usage. Here's a link to the slides. Then we emphasized the need to identify sources thoroughly and correctly in the previous Defend Your Position paper and the upcoming Influential Person paper. We shared some info on who we are choosing as our influential people and then began researching. Tonight you should be compiling one page of notes on your IP for class tomorrow. Don't fill your notes with background on your IP. Instead identify the reasons why the IP is influential and then research those pieces of information. You need hard evidence in the form of quotes and data to offer convincing arguments.
Standard: We reviewed introductory clauses and comma usage. Here's a link to the slides. Then we went through some of the power presentations. Realize that there is a good reason why we do this, and it is not just to make good presentations. As you discussed today, it helps build confidence, it shows the importance of doing things with passion, it will lead to a more successful presentation of yourself and a more successful life overall. Who doesn't want that?
See you tomorrow.
Standard: We reviewed introductory clauses and comma usage. Here's a link to the slides. Then we went through some of the power presentations. Realize that there is a good reason why we do this, and it is not just to make good presentations. As you discussed today, it helps build confidence, it shows the importance of doing things with passion, it will lead to a more successful presentation of yourself and a more successful life overall. Who doesn't want that?
See you tomorrow.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Reflection Writing
Lots of links to share today. After our rehashing of the difference between active and passive voice, I introduced our next step: The Influential Person Paper. Here's the link to the assignment. In addition to explaining what you need to do, the document also includes a rubric.
The big news today was the multi-media aspect of the presentation. You'll be writing a paper that needs to stand on its own, but in addition you'll be inserting between three-five links to pictures, sources, videos, music, etc., anything that will enhance your presentation and your reader's understanding of the influential person you selected.
In addition you will be videoing yourself reading the paper and clicking on the links through a program called screencastomatic. I showed you how I did it today in class. Unfortunately, I seem to be having a little trouble sharing the link with you at this moment. I'll try again later.
Tonight you need to be doing two things. First, think up a couple of people who you would be interested in writing about. Identify your influential people. Second, be sure to complete the reflection of the Defend Your Position paper. Here is the link to the reflection questions.
In that standard class we also worked on our active and passive voice before seeing some people bring their A game to the presentation. We saw some good emotion and inflection and passion, but would love to see it on a more consistent basis. We'll get through more tomorrow before I'll have to start docking points for not bringing the passion, confidence, enthusiasm, authenticity in a comforting and captivating way.
The big news today was the multi-media aspect of the presentation. You'll be writing a paper that needs to stand on its own, but in addition you'll be inserting between three-five links to pictures, sources, videos, music, etc., anything that will enhance your presentation and your reader's understanding of the influential person you selected.
In addition you will be videoing yourself reading the paper and clicking on the links through a program called screencastomatic. I showed you how I did it today in class. Unfortunately, I seem to be having a little trouble sharing the link with you at this moment. I'll try again later.
Tonight you need to be doing two things. First, think up a couple of people who you would be interested in writing about. Identify your influential people. Second, be sure to complete the reflection of the Defend Your Position paper. Here is the link to the reflection questions.
In that standard class we also worked on our active and passive voice before seeing some people bring their A game to the presentation. We saw some good emotion and inflection and passion, but would love to see it on a more consistent basis. We'll get through more tomorrow before I'll have to start docking points for not bringing the passion, confidence, enthusiasm, authenticity in a comforting and captivating way.
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